A social media video of this Welsh choir singing Myfanwy has gone absolutely nuts and its members are getting messages of admiration from all over the world.

The Pendyrus Male Voice Choir’s version of Joseph Parry’s Myfanwy has seen over 150,000 views as well as thousands more likes and shares since it was posted on Monday, and conductor Stewart Roberts said the reaction has been “overwhelming”.

He said: “It’s great and something that came as a surprise to us. We posted our version of Bring Him Home for Armed Forces Day last month, and that received a huge reaction, but this one has gone beyond even that.

“We cannot quite believe it. It’s really kicked off and we’ve had messages of support from places like Colorado, Sydney and Barbados.”

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Stewart puts much of the group’s success down to the relatively young age of the choir and the modern take they put on their set lists.

The Pendyrus Choir

He said: “As well as the classics, we also do a lot of arrangements of pop songs from Shania Twain to Take That and are ahead of many other choirs because they find it more difficult to attract the younger generation.”

The choir has had an extremely successful month, and walked away with the top prize at the Cardigan Semi-National Eisteddfod.

The Rhondda -based choir scooped first prize at the Gwyl Fawr on Saturday, July 1.